MERCYHEALTH ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP | Javon Bea
Contact: Javon Bea, President and CEO
Mercyhealth’s Mission
Exceptional health care services with a passion for making lives better.
Every day, our partners take this mission to heart. Our providers, nurses and partners are committed to working together to make lives better for our patients and their families. Touching lives invigorates, inspires and drives us to do our very best, and we continuously look for ways to make each life better with the utmost care and professionalism. This can be as complex as a cutting-edge procedure or as simple as a smile. Nothing is ever too small or taken for granted. Everything matters. And we never miss a beat.
Meet the President & CEO of Mercyhealth, Javon Bea
For over 135 years, Mercyhealth has provided high-quality health care to residents throughout northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. We have a passion for providing comprehensive health care close to home for area residents through our six hospitals and 85 primary and specialty care locations.
As an integrated health system, you can come to us for routine health care, like annual physicals, immunizations and preventive health screenings, as well as highly specialized care, such as neonatal intensive care, heart surgery, stroke care, neurosurgery, cancer treatment and much more. The range of Mercyhealth’s specialties and the skills of our doctors, nurses and clinical staff are truly extraordinary.
Every day our 7,500-plus employee partners and 900-plus doctors take our brand expression—a passion for making lives better—to heart. Our providers, nurses and partners are committed to working together to make lives better for our patients and their families. Touching lives invigorates, inspires and drives us to do our very best, and we continuously look for ways to make each life better. This can be as complex as a cutting-edge procedure or as simple as a smile.
I hope you will take the time to browse our website and see the many services available to you. When it comes to your health, you can feel confident knowing that Mercyhealth is here, ready to serve you with a passion for making lives better. Thank you for putting your trust in Mercyhealth. It is our privilege to serve you.
Wishing you good health,
Javon R. Bea
President/CEO
Biography
Javon R. Bea is President and CEO of Mercyhealth, a vertically integrated, multi-regional system with 6 hospitals, 900+ employed physician partners and 7,500+ employee/partners, 89 primary and specialty care locations, a home health hospice division and a wholly owned and operated insurance company. Mercyhealth offers services across 15 northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin counties.
Javon has nearly five decades of experience in the national health care arena, having served at prestigious and well-respected medical centers throughout the country. A sought-after speaker and consultant, Javon is renowned for his innovations in the areas of integrated health care delivery and physician partnership models. He has written extensively for national health care publications, as well as co-authored The Capitation Sourcebook: A Practical Guide to Managing At-Risk Arrangements, and published a book entitled Journey to Excellence.
Javon’s experience implementing effective culture of excellence programs and innovative physician compensation models to foster system turnaround is unparalleled. He pioneered a “partnership model” of compensation and designed a custom culture of excellence program that promotes both clinical and service quality initiatives.
Over the last 35 years, Javon has transformed Mercy Hospital from a single, stand-alone hospital into a large, vertically integrated health system. When he began in 1989, Mercy Hospital was a struggling community hospital with no integrated physician partners. Today, more than 900 multi-specialty physicians are completely integrated W2 physician partners—a model that Mercyhealth leadership championed long before it was recognized as a path to sustainable success throughout the industry. Through Javon’s leadership, Mercyhealth has operated as a virtual Accountable Care Organization (ACO) for decades and has developed advanced physician and clinical protocols of care that position it for success under the ACO model of care.
In 2015, Javon led the merger and integration of Mercy Health System and Rockford Health System to form Mercyhealth. Prior to the merger, Rockford Health System had a $10 million average loss on net income from operations for five previous years. In one short year (July 2015-June 2016), he established a positive bottom line of $24.4 million net income.
Under his visionary leadership, Mercyhealth was the first health system in history to receive Certificate of Need approval for one hospital license to be divided between two locations. Mercyhealth also gained approval to build a small hospital and multi-specialty clinic in Crystal Lake, Illinois. This was the first time in history the CON Board approved a small “format” hospital under 100 beds. Mercyhealth Hospital and Physician Clinic–Crystal Lake opened in 2023, providing that community with 24/7 emergency services, giving residents access to life-saving emergency care.
In addition, Javon was honored with Medical Group Management Association’s 2019 Harwick Innovation Award for his revolutionary W2 Physician Partnership Model that helped transform Mercyhealth into a thriving, integrated health system.